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Jermain Taylor
Born (1978-08-11) August 11, 1978 (age 45)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Other names
  • Bad Intentions[2]
Statistics
Weight(s)
Height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[1]
Reach78 in (198 cm)[1]
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record
Total fights38
Wins33
Wins by KO20
Losses4
Draws1
Medal record
Men's amateur boxing
Representing  United States
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Light middleweight
Goodwill Games
Bronze medal – third place 1998 New York Light middleweight

Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former

WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, and The Ring middleweight titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins
, and in doing so ending Hopkins' ten-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first, and to date, only male boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight. He once again defeated Hopkins six months later, making him the only fighter to have defeated Hopkins twice. He retired as a world champion in the months that followed his capture of the IBF middleweight title for a second time, after making a substantial recovery from a brain injury sustained earlier in his career.

Taylor made his professional debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions

2000 Olympics, Taylor won a bronze medal in the light middleweight
division.

During his reign as unified middleweight champion, Taylor won an immediate rematch against Hopkins and defeated

stopped with seconds remaining in the final round. At the end of the year he participated in the Super Six World Boxing Classic tournament, but was again knocked out in the closing seconds of the final round by Arthur Abraham
.

Subsequent neurological issues forced Taylor out of the ring for the next two years. He returned in 2011, winning five consecutive fights and defeating Sam Soliman in 2014 to claim his second IBF middleweight title. Later that year, Taylor was arrested and detained on gun charges but avoided a prison sentence in 2016.

Professional career

Early fights

In December 2000, Taylor signed with boxing promoter

technical knockout victory for Taylor.[9] On December 4, 2004, Taylor fought former WBA Middleweight Champion William Joppy in his hometown of Little Rock. For the majority of the fight, Joppy made the more aggressive Taylor chase him, while landing few punches and seeming more content to frustrate Taylor. Taylor landed several punches early in the fight and knocked Joppy down in the fifth round en route to a unanimous decision victory with scores of 120–107 from all three judges.[10] In his next bout, Taylor fought Daniel Edouard on February 19, 2005. In the third round, Taylor landed a 10-punch combination that hurt Edouard to the point that the referee decided to stop the fight.[11]

Undisputed middleweight champion

Main article: Bernard Hopkins vs. Jermain Taylor

Taylor fought

Undisputed Middleweight Champion,[14] winning the WBC, WBO, IBF, WBA (Super), The Ring and Lineal Middleweight Championships.[15][16][17] Hopkins appealed the decision, but was denied by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.[18]

On December 3, 2005, Taylor defeated Hopkins by unanimous decision in a rematch at the

Light Middleweight Champion Winky Wright and Sam Soliman.[21] On December 10, 2005, Wright defeated Soliman by unanimous decision to retain his number one position in the WBC and WBA Middleweight rankings and take over the number one spot in the IBF Middleweight rankings.[22]

Unified middleweight champion

Taylor vs. Wright

On June 17, 2006, Taylor fought Winky Wright at the

FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. The WBC had ordered Taylor and Wright to begin negotiating on the fight on December 12, 2005 and if the two sides could not agree, a purse bid would be ordered.[23] An agreement was made 10 minutes before a purse bid was to take place.[24] Ozell Nelson, unsatisfied with Taylor's progression between the first and second Hopkins fights, helped convince Taylor to replace Pat Burns with hall of fame trainer Emanuel Steward.[25] Taylor received $3.75 million for the fight and Wright made $3.5 million. Wright only paid sanctioning fees for the WBC belt, while Taylor paid fees to the WBC and WBO. Taylor did not pay the fees to the WBA amid controversy of the organization removing him from their rankings after questions of whether Taylor followed all procedures for the WBA before his rematch with Hopkins. He was reinstated at the top the organizations' middleweight rankings, but his title remained under review.[26] The bout was evenly competitive through the first 10 rounds, with Wright winning most of the early rounds before Taylor became more active in the latter part of the fight. By the ninth round, Wright had swelling above both his eyes. Wright was winning the bout going into the final round on two of the judges' scorecards, but he was generally passive in the round. Two of the three judges gave the round to Taylor, which resulted in a draw.[27] The scores for the fight were 115–113 for Taylor, 115–113 for Wright and 114–114.[28]

Taylor vs. Ouma, Spinks

On December 9, 2006, Taylor fought

reach, had difficulty getting within a closer range against his opponent. Taylor landed 101 of 319 punches, while Spinks landed just 85 of 542. Taylor won the fight by split decision, with two judges scoring 117–111 and 115–113 in favor of him and the other scoring 117–111 for Spinks.[31]

Taylor vs. Pavlik

In his next bout, Taylor fought Kelly Pavlik on September 29, 2007 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Pavlik began rising in popularity after an upset victory over Edison Miranda in a Middleweight Title Eliminator to determine the number one contender to fight Taylor.[32] During their amateur careers, Taylor had defeated Pavlik on February 9, 2000 in the opening round of the United States Olympic trials.[33] In the second round of the bout, Taylor landed a right hand and followed-up with several more punches which resulted in the first knockdown of the fight. Pavlik got up and managed to make it to the end of the round. Entering the seventh round, Taylor had a commanding lead on all three judges' scorecards. With less than a minute remaining in the round, Pavlik landed a right cross that sent Taylor into a corner. Pavlik closed in and threw a left uppercut followed by a left and right hook and right uppercut. Two more left hooks dropped Taylor to the canvas as the referee stepped in to halt the fight. It was the first time Taylor had lost in his professional career and the first time he had ever been knocked down.[34] One month later, Taylor exercised a rematch clause in his contract with Pavlik. The rematch took place at a weight of 166 pounds (75 kg), six pounds higher than the middleweight limit.[35] Due to disappointing performances, Emanuel Steward was fired as Taylor's trainer and replaced with Ozell Nelson.[5] Fighting at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on February 16, 2008, Taylor lost the rematch to Pavlik by unanimous decision.[36]

Super middleweight

After the two losses to Pavlik, Taylor moved up officially to the super middleweight division. On November 15, 2008, Taylor defeated Jeff Lacy by a dominant unanimous decision to earn a mandatory fight against the winner of a bout between Carl Froch and Jean Pascal for the vacant WBC Super Middleweight title,[37] a fight that was won by Froch.[38] On April 25, 2009, at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, Taylor fought Carl Froch for the WBC Super Middleweight title. Taylor was able to control the first two rounds of the fight. In the third round, Taylor knocked Froch down for the first time in his career with a right hand. Entering the final round, Taylor was ahead 106–102 on two of the judges' scorecards, while Froch was ahead 106–102 on the other. During the round, Froch landed two right hands that sent Taylor to the canvas. He got up, but Froch quickly went after him, trapping him against the ropes and landing a barrage of hard and fast punches. Taylor could not recoup or defend himself, desperately curling up against the ropes. Around 10 clean hard shots from Froch landed before the referee stepped in to stop the bout with only a matter of seconds left in the final round, earning Froch the technical knockout victory.[39]

Super Six tournament and first retirement

Main article: Super Six World Boxing Classic

Taylor competed in the preliminary round of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, a tournament by Showtime, to find out who is the best boxer in the super middleweight division.

On October 17, 2009, in his first fight in the Super Six tournament at the

Berlin, Germany, undefeated Armenian-German former champion, Arthur Abraham, defeated Jermain Taylor by KO in the 12th round with less than 10 seconds left in the fight. Taylor was hospitalized with a severe concussion, suffering short term memory loss, unable to remember details of this bout. After being released from the hospital, Taylor released a statement saying that he's doing just fine and wanted to congratulate Abraham on his victory and wish him well in the tournament.[40]
At the time of the stoppage, the judges scorecards read: 104-102, 107-102 and 106-102, all in favour of Abraham.

In January 2010, Taylor, one of the original members of the Super Six World Boxing Classic, officially withdrew from the tournament. The former Undisputed Middleweight Champion issued a statement in early 2010 saying, "I'm going to take some time off from the sport of boxing and take myself out of the SHOWTIME Sports World Boxing Classic tournament. It's important that I give my body and mind some much needed rest, because I have been boxing for nearly 20 years," said Taylor. "I plan on keeping myself in shape and making a return to the sport sometime in the future. This was not an easy decision for me, having discussed it with my family, trainer, friends and my adviser Al Haymon, because I'm a very competitive person-but I know this is the smart road for me to take." Taylor was later replaced by Allan Green.

Middleweight comeback

On December 30, 2011, after 26 months away from the ring, Taylor finally returned and faced Jessie Nicklow. In a fight scheduled for ten rounds, Taylor won via technical knockout in the eighth round. He then took on then-undefeated Caleb Truax (18-0-1) on April 25, 2012 in another fight scheduled for ten rounds. Taylor controlled most of the action and survived a knock-down in round nine in order to win a unanimous decision victory.

Taylor then faced boxing veteran Raul Munoz on October 12, 2012. He made short work of Muñoz, winning via second-round KO.

Taylor's next bout was against Juan Carlos Candelo on December 14, 2013. Jermaine won with a seventh-round TKO.

On October 4, 2014, Taylor fought Sam Soliman, in Biloxi, Mississippi for Soliman's IBF Middleweight World Championship belt. After twelve grueling rounds, (Soliman injured his knee badly midway through the fight) and knocking Soliman down four times (Soliman actually went down on his own from the knee injury, not primarily from punches from Taylor), Taylor won with a resounding unanimous decision. By regaining the belt he had lost to Pavlik in 2007, Taylor became a two-time middleweight world champion.

Troubles outside the ring and second retirement

On February 6, 2015 Taylor was scheduled to defend his title against Sergio Mora on ESPN2's Friday Night Fights in Biloxi, Mississippi.[41] However, the fight was cancelled after Taylor suffered an injury and was also later arrested and charged with multiple felonies following an incident on January 19 (see Personal life below).[42] The IBF subsequently stripped him of his title on February 6, due to his inability to defend during his ongoing legal and mental health issues.[43]

Personal life

Taylor was married to former

Everlast, GQ and Vogue.[44]

Lou Dibella resigned as Taylor's promoter because he was concerned with Taylor's health following the knockout from Arthur Abraham in the Super Six tournament. Taylor had been knocked out two times prior to the Abraham bout.

On August 26, 2014, Taylor was taken into police custody and charged with two felonies after officers said he shot his cousin during an altercation in his Little Rock, Arkansas, home.[50] Taylor was out on bond for his October 4, 2014, bout versus Sam Soliman. On January 19, 2015, Taylor was arrested without incident and a gun was recovered. He was jailed on five felony counts of aggravated assault, three felony counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, and a misdemeanor count of drug possession after he was found to have a small bag of marijuana. Taylor was remanded to the custody of the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock in lieu of a $27,000 bond.[51]

On May 20, 2016, Taylor was given a suspended sentence of 19 years to be served concurrently, amounting to a six-year suspended sentence for three cases. He was also sentenced to probation and will have to serve 120 hours of community service, pay a $2,000 fine plus court costs, and will have to submit to regular drug screens.[52]

Professional boxing record

38 fights 33 wins 4 losses
By knockout 20 3
By decision 13 1
Draws 1
No. Result Record Opponent Type Round, time Date Location Notes
38 Win 33–4–1 Sam Soliman UD 12 Oct 4, 2014 Beau Rivage, Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. Won IBF middleweight title
37 Win 32–4–1 Juan Carlos Candelo TKO 7 (10), 2:58 Dec 14, 2013
San Antonio, Texas
, U.S.
36 Win 31–4–1 Raúl Jorge Muñoz KO 2 (10), 1:05 Oct 12, 2012 Ameristar Casino Resort Spa, St. Charles, Missouri, U.S.
35 Win 30–4–1 Caleb Truax UD 10 Apr 25, 2012 Beau Rivage, Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.
34 Win 29–4–1 Jessie Nicklow TKO 8 (10), 0:36 Dec 30, 2011
Morongo Casino Resort & Spa, Cabazon, California
, U.S.
33 Loss 28–4–1 Arthur Abraham KO 12 (12), 2:54 Oct 17, 2009
O2 World, Berlin
, Germany 		Super Six World Boxing Classic: group stage 1
32 Loss 28–3–1 Carl Froch TKO 12 (12), 2:46 Apr 25, 2009 Foxwoods Resort Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut, U.S. For WBC super middleweight title
31 Win 28–2–1 Jeff Lacy UD 12 Nov 15, 2008 Memorial Gymnasium, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
30 Loss 27–2–1 Kelly Pavlik UD 12 Feb 16, 2008 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
29 Loss 27–1–1 Kelly Pavlik TKO 7 (12), 2:14 Sep 29, 2007 Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Lost WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
28 Win 27–0–1 Cory Spinks SD 12 May 19, 2007 FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Retained WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
27 Win 26–0–1 Kassim Ouma UD 12 Dec 9, 2006 Alltel Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Retained WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
26 Draw 25–0–1 Winky Wright SD 12 Jun 17, 2006 FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Retained WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
25 Win 25–0 Bernard Hopkins UD 12
Dec 3, 2005
 Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Retained WBA (Undisputed), WBC, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
24 Win 24–0 Bernard Hopkins SD 12 Jul 16, 2005 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Won WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO and The Ring middleweight titles
23 Win 23–0 Daniel Edouard TKO 3 (10), 2:26 Feb 19, 2005
Los Angeles, California
, U.S.
22 Win 22–0 William Joppy UD 12 Dec 4, 2004 Barton Coliseum, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Retained WBC Continental Americas middleweight title
21 Win 21–0 Raúl Márquez RTD 9 (12), 3:00 Jun 19, 2004
Home Depot Center, Carson, California
, U.S. 		Retained WBC Continental Americas middleweight title
20 Win 20–0 Alex Bunema TKO 7 (12), 2:17 Mar 27, 2004 Alltel Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Retained WBC Continental Americas middleweight title
19 Win 19–0 Alex Rios TKO 1 (10), 0:54 Jan 9, 2004 Mohegan Sun Arena, Montville, Connecticut, U.S.
18 Win 18–0 Rogelio Martinez TKO 7 (10), 1:42
Nov 8, 2003
Mandalay Bay Events Center
, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
17 Win 17–0 Alfredo Cuevas UD 12 Aug 8, 2003 Alltel Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. Won vacant WBC Continental Americas middleweight title
16 Win 16–0 Nicolas Cervera TKO 4 (10), 2:37 May 17, 2003 Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
15 Win 15–0 Marcos Primera TKO 5 (10), 2:12 Mar 31, 2003 Statehouse Convention Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
14 Win 14–0 Lionel Ortiz TKO 2 (10), 0:40 Jan 30, 2003
American Airlines Arena
, Miami, Florida, U.S.
13 Win 13–0 Keith Sims TKO 1 (10), 0:52 Dec 20, 2002 Creek Nation Gaming Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
12 Win 12–0 Johnny Rivera TKO 4 (10), 2:23 Nov 9, 2002
Mountaineer Casino Racetrack and Resort, Chester, West Virginia
, U.S.
11 Win 11–0 Sam Hill UD 10 Aug 17, 2002
Etess Arena, Atlantic City, New Jersey
, U.S.
10 Win 10–0 Grady Brewer UD 8 Jun 15, 2002
Miami, Florida
, U.S.
9 Win 9–0 Joe Garcia TKO 6 (8) Apr 27, 2002 Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York, U.S.
8 Win 8–0 Ron Carnell TKO 3 (6), 0:16 Mar 15, 2002 Creek Nation Bingo, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
7 Win 7–0 Undra White TKO 4 (6), 0:17 Nov 23, 2001 Roseland Ballroom, New York City, New York, U.S.
6 Win 6–0 Dave Hamilton TKO 2 (6), 1:54 Nov 2, 2001 Foxwoods Resort Casino, Ledyard, Connecticut, U.S.
5 Win 5–0 Efrain Garcia TKO 5 (6), 1:25 Aug 11, 2001
Alltel Arena, Little Rock, Arkansas
, U.S.
4 Win 4–0 Marvin Smith UD 4 Jun 23, 2001 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
3 Win 3–0 Antonio Baker UD 4 May 8, 2001
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
, U.S.
2 Win 2–0 Kenny Stubbs TKO 2 (4), 2:28 Apr 7, 2001 MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
1 Win 1–0 Chris Walsh TKO 4 (4), 0:16 Jan 27, 2001
New York City, New York
, U.S.

See also

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